Elizabeth HENCHMAN

Father: Joseph HENCHMAN
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Amos SILVESTER

(1) The Mayflower Descendant, Volume VIII (1906); Scituate, Mass., Vital Records; page 205: "Amos SILVESTER & Elizabeth HENCHMAN were maryed November the 20th 1706"

  1. Amos SILVESTER
  2. William SILVESTER
  3. Joseph SILVESTER
  4. Henchman SILVESTER
  5. Michael SILVESTER
  6. Mary SILVESTER
  7. Nathaniel SILVESTER
  8. Caleb SILVESTER
  9. Edmund SILVESTER
  10. Mary SILVESTER
  11. Elizabeth SILVESTER
  12. Thomas SILVESTER
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 _Joseph HENCHMAN_|
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Notes

Updated January 5, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Elizabeth HENCHMAN
- Gender: female
- Spouse Name: Amos SILVESTER
- Spouse Birth Place: MA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1685
- Marriage Year: 1706

(2) The Mayflower Descendant, Volume VIII (1906); Scituate, Mass., Vital Records; page 205.

"Amos SILVESTER + Elizabeth HENCHMAN were maryed November the 20th 1706"

(3) Find a Grave

- Name: Elizabeth HENCHMAN SYLVESTER
- Birth: 17 Jul 1685
- Death: 11 Feb 1762 (aged 76)
- Burial: Hanover Center Cemetery; Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
- Memorial ID: 142556226

(4) Barry, John Stetson. A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., with Family Genealogies. Boston, published by Samuel G. Drake, 1853. Page 402.

"Amos [SILVESTER],... m. Elizab. HENCHMAN, Nov. 20, 1706, who d. Feb. 11, 1762, ae. 77, and he Oct. 23, 1753. His house stood on Wash'n st., near where that of Rob't. SYLVESTER now stands, and was for many years a Tavern stand, kept by his widow after his decease... When the old mansion was torn down, two chairs were preserved, one of wh. is in the possession of Rob't, and the other of Michael SYLVESTER."

(5) Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 362.

- House stood on what is now Washington St., in Hanover; a tavern, and was operated by Elizabeth after the death of Amos SILVESTER (reported May 20, 1762)
- Tavern burned soon after the death of Elizabeth